{"id":6377,"date":"2014-06-17T09:43:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2014-06-17T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:43:21","slug":"california-drought-dries-honey-supply-kqed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/06\/17\/california-drought-dries-honey-supply-kqed\/","title":{"rendered":"California drought dries up honey supply &#8211; from KQED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alice Daniel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/science\/files\/2014\/06\/RS10813_Honey-Drought-007-hpf-e1402618479319.jpg\" rel=\"gallery\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A beekeeper for Bradshaw Honey Farm wears protective clothing to check the health of the bees.  The bees don't have enough wildflowers to make honey. Instead, owner David Bradshaw is just trying to keep his bees alive.\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/science\/files\/2014\/06\/RS10813_Honey-Drought-007-hpf-e1402618479319.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Beekeeper Chris DePrada wears protective clothing to check the health of the bees for Bradshaw Honey Farm.(Alice Daniel\/KQED)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These are hard times for honeybees; colonies are collapsing for reasons ranging from pesticides to parasites. And with this year\u2019s pitiful rainfall in California, bees are facing another plight: There\u2019s a lot less natural forage to make honey.<\/p>\n<p>Second-generation beekeeper David Bradshaw pulls his truck up alongside wooden boxes of beehives on a farm outside the Central Valley town of Visalia. Soon, a loud mechanical sound \u2013 some would say a beekeeper\u2019s buzz kill \u2013 drowns out the lively drone of bees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a pump,\u201d explains Bradshaw. His hungry insects aren\u2019t getting enough natural nectar, so Bradshaw has to feed them. \u201cIt sucks the syrup blend out of that tank, and pumps it into that garden hose. Then we go from hive to hive and fill up these little feeders here. They hold about a gallon of syrup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bradshaw will spend about $80,000 on artificial nectar this summer just to keep his colonies from starving.<\/p>\n<p>In a normal year, Bradshaw takes his bees to hills laden with wildflowers. But this year, those hills are bone dry and they look barren. Plants are mostly dormant, and that means the natural nectar production line is shut down.<\/p>\n<p>When wildflowers do bloom, they make nectar from sugar and water. Bees use the nectar to make honey. But a drought means less water, less nectar and less honey.<\/p>\n<p>So Bradshaw is keeping his bees on the valley floor. In addition to the syrup, he\u2019s feeding them a doughy protein supplement: soy flour, brewer\u2019s yeast, vitamins and minerals.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good enough to keep the bees going, but it\u2019s no substitute for the nectar used to make honey. That\u2019s one reason Bradshaw sent 700 of his hives to Kansas, to feast on bee pastures there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just load them up on a semi truck and send them off,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like sending his kids off to summer camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worry! If they run into some bad weather where it gets too hot,\u201d Bradshaw says. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to be stuck on the side of the road in a broken truck with a bunch of angry bees in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bradshaw\u2019s been keeping bees for 40 years. His 3,800 hives typically produce about 250 barrels of honey a year. In the past three years, because of the drought and lack of wildflower nectar, his bees have been producing one-tenth of that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can tell the bees are hungry,\u201d Bradshaw says. \u201cThey\u2019re all over the truck. If there was nectar available, they wouldn\u2019t even be around the truck. They smell the syrup there so they\u2019re all over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His bees fed, Bradshaw gets back in his truck. As he drives over a bridge spanning an empty riverbed, he says small packers from Santa Cruz to Ojai have called him begging for honey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially the more exotic honeys like sage honey or buckwheat honey,\u201d he says. \u201cEven alfalfa honey is gonna be in very, very short supply this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crops like alfalfa and cotton are less abundant this year because there\u2019s not enough water to irrigate them. So beekeepers are leaning heavily on one crop: oranges.<\/p>\n<p>Beekeeper Steve Godlin watches the sticky orange blossom honey move slowly down a chute at his warehouse outside the little town of Exeter, not far from the Sierra foothills.<\/p>\n<p>He points to the production line where the wax gets separated from the honey and the honey gets pumped down to a tank. \u201cThat\u2019s where we fill the barrels,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>In wet years, Godlin runs his bees from the Coast Ranges to the Mojave Desert and he can make a million pounds of honey. This year he\u2019ll produce half that much, and with less variety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn those wet years, there\u2019s sage, buckwheat, blue curl, tarweed, manzanita, a lot of different plants,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>On dry years, oranges are his best bet. But oranges are a crowded field. Beekeepers come from all over the country to plant their hives amid the sweet-smelling orchards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody and their brother wanted to bring their bees to the oranges,\u201d Godlin says. \u201cI do my best to protect my areas but it\u2019s a free country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gene Brandi, vice president of the American Beekeeping Federation, says California is typically a major honey-producing state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn years when California receives adequate rainfall and especially in years when California receives above-normal rainfall, like the El Ni\u00f1o years, California is the number one honey-producing state in the nation,\u201d Brandi says. \u201cWe\u2019ve done that many times in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Honey production in the state varies considerably from year to year, but in a drought year it typically gets cut by about half. This year, Brandi says, it might be worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a year like this when it\u2019s not only dry but the irrigation water is so scarce,\u201d Brandi says. \u201cI think the honey production in California will likely be one of the lowest levels we\u2019ve seen in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile wholesale honey prices are the highest Brandi has ever seen, averaging $2 a pound. That\u2019s great for beekeepers, he says, if only they had more to sell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/science\/audio\/california-drought-dries-up-honey-supply\/\"><br \/>\nLink to story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alice Daniel Beekeeper Chris DePrada wears protective clothing to check the health of the bees for Bradshaw Honey Farm.(Alice Daniel\/KQED) These are hard times for honeybees; colonies are collapsing for reasons ranging from pesticides to parasites. 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